{"id":894162,"date":"2025-09-09T08:36:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T15:36:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/?p=894162"},"modified":"2025-09-09T09:51:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T16:51:14","slug":"golden-gate-before-and-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/blog\/golden-gate-before-and-after\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Gate \u2014 Before and After"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LVA correspondent Michael B sent in these two photos, the first of the Golden Gate&#8217;s casino rammin&#8217; and jammin&#8217; with live table games and dancing dealers, the second, uh, without. He snapped the Before photo on Sunday evening after Derek Stevens&#8217;s speech commemorating the Golden Gate&#8217;s long history and announcing the new marketing campaign that includes free drinks every night from 6 to 7 p.m. (if you can get close to the bar) and generous free play for the machines. (He also noted that  you can redeem your Golden Gate chips at the D and Circa and there&#8217;s &#8220;no rush&#8221; to do so.) The After photo was taken on Monday night after the joint was cleared out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And yes, electronic table games will soon be installed, but, well &#8230; we leave it to you to draw your own conclusions about the direction (disappearing dealers) of the Golden Gate, Las Vegas, and the gambling biz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Before<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"980\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg1.jpg?resize=980%2C523&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-894163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg1.jpg?resize=1024%2C547&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg1.jpg?resize=300%2C160&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg1.jpg?resize=768%2C410&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg1.jpg?resize=445%2C238&amp;ssl=1 445w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg1.jpg?w=1101&amp;ssl=1 1101w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>After <\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"913\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg2.jpg?resize=913%2C590&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-894164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg2.jpg?w=913&amp;ssl=1 913w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg2.jpg?resize=300%2C194&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg2.jpg?resize=768%2C496&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/gg2.jpg?resize=445%2C288&amp;ssl=1 445w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LVA correspondent Michael B sent in these two photos, the first of the Golden Gate&#8217;s casino rammin&#8217; and jammin&#8217; with live table games and dancing dealers, the second, uh, without. He snapped the Before photo on Sunday evening after Derek Stevens&#8217;s speech commemorating the Golden Gate&#8217;s long history and announcing the new marketing campaign that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":894165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1454],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/shutterstock_2543203559-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894162"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":894177,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894162\/revisions\/894177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lasvegasadvisor.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}